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Oxford Poets 2010: An AnthologyEdited by David Constantine, Robyn Marsack and Bernard O'Donoghue
Categories: 21st Century, Anthologies
Imprint: OxfordPoets Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as:
Including poetry by: Robert Black Jim Carruth Ellen Cranitch Philip Hancock Pippa Little Kathryn Maris M.R. Peacocke David Shook Ryan Van Winkle The first OxfordPoets anthology established as an editorial principal ‘no programme beyond a desire to represent the best’. The series has unfolded as a record of contemporary poetry, and this sixth collection maintains the qualities of lively eclecticism, inventiveness and intelligence that have made the anthologies one of the most engaging samplers of current writing. The poets here include new writers and those who have become more widely known; writers whose imaginative and linguistic worlds span decades and continents; those who remake traditional forms and those who experiment beyond them. Their individual voices are distinctive; they share a commitment to the possibilities of poetry to explore and translate the world. Cover photograph: copyright © StephenRaw.com
Contents
Introduction Robert Ray Black Measures Life Like Green Nothing Unknown Untitled Glosses Briseis’ Daddy What is argued Growing Bones Dick Gamble Saturday’s Child Jim Carruth Signing for the Deaf Picking up the Song (in a break in the harvest) Black Cart The Progressive Canadian Barn Dance Prince of Tinkers Old Ploughman Farm Sale Ellen Cranitch Dying Time The Aftermath Ghost Bikes Valentine’s Day, Regent’s Park Deep Blue My Mother’s Hair The Suicide’s Defence The New Cemetery, Killarney Philip Hancock Double Art Applied Physics Woodruff & Sons Caravans Over 21s Payday Demolition of the Power Station To Carry a Ladder Footnotes Pippa Little The Only of Himself Beijing Flight, Thursday Morning Riddling The Flowering Stella Maris The Captain Plays Shostakovich on an Upright Piano, Field Hospital, Helmand Province This was the year The Night-Flying Bees Newala Spending One Day with Patrick Kavanagh Kathryn Maris Knowledge Is a Good Thing Hilary Has Left the Building, Unless She Hasn’t If You Relive a Moment You Cannot Outlive It The Tall Thin Tenor On Returning a Child to Her Mother at the Natural History Museum Doubting Thomas This Is a Confessional Poem M.R. Peacocke Les Pompes Funèbres Seaside Stories Child’s Play Shall We Dance? Thirteenth Night Jug David Shook Postcard from Weslaco Four Ash Fall Questions Silvestre Adán Postcard from El Paso: Night Shift at the Hotdog Factory Offerings to Tule The Rest of the Cow Peluqueria Poema Ryan Van Winkle It Is Summer and in Connecticut the Grill Is Grilling Falling #71 Knots They Tore the Bridge Down a Year Later Gasoline Ode for a Rain from Death Row Discreet My 100-year-old ghost The day he went to war
Awards won by David Constantine
Short-listed, 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award (The Shieling)
Winner, 2013 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize
(Tea at the Midland) Winner, 2010 BBC National Short Story Award (Tea at the Midland)
Praise for David Constantine
'I started reading these stories quietly, and then became obsessed, read them all fast, and started re-reading them again and again. They are gripping tales, but what is startling is the quality of the writing. Every sentence is both unpredictable and exactly what it should be. Reading them is a series of short shocks of (agreeably envious) pleasure...'
AS Byatt, Book of the Week, The Guardian 'Flawless and unsettling.' Boyd Tonkin, Books of the Year 2005, The Independent 'Touched at times with humour and infused with compassion, these complex, nuanced stories speak repeatedly of lives lived in some form of exile, yet manage to keep in play the possibility that exile is not, contrary to appearances, our true condition.' New Welsh Review 'A. S. Byatt has described reading a previous collection of Constantine's short fiction as akin to experiencing ''a series of short shocks of (agreeably envious) pleasure''. Tea at the Midland shows the author to be on equally sparkling form again.' The TLS 'The excellence of the collection is fractal: the whole book is excellent, and every story is excellent, and every paragraph is excellent, and every sentence is excellent. And, unlike some literary fiction, it's effortless to read.' The Independent on Sunday Praise for Robyn Marsack 'Readers will be drawn to this book for the poets' letters, but what really dominates is the personality of Schmidt; at the end we are left with a prevailing sense of his editorial vision and an appreciation of his influence and accomplishment in the world of contemporary poetry publishing and criticism... Fifty Fifty is full of energy and play, and not a few crossed swords.' Kevin Gardner, Wild Court 'A window into the award-winning world of Carcanet' Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph 'In celebration of the Manchester-based press' 50th anniversary, a fascinating collection of letters... tracing the eventful history of this small, ambitious and excellent press.' The Bookseller |
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